Maximum of how many wireless cards

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 12 July 2004 11:17, Jim Thompson wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 July 2004 08:59, nondito wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Maximum of how many wireless cards I can use in a
> >> hostap box?
> >>
> >> I have 6 PCI slots, can the driver support loading
> >> upto 6 wireless cards?
> >
> > I used 3 cards at once. No apparent problems.
>
> Did you try it at range?

Yes. Two cards in one box, each serving at least ~5 km
long link.

> > Channels 1 and 5 would interfere. Only 1 and 6 wouldn't.
> > In other words, you need at least 4 channels in between.
> > Basically, you can use 1,6,11 and 16th channel. ;)
>
> The whole "three non-overlapping channels" thing is a myth.  See
> previous message.
>
> > No, I don't know how to set 16th channel.
>
> There is no 16th channel.  Its unlikely that the VCOs on your card will
> tune the radio that high anyway.

Atheros is rumored to be able to go way higher (and to be able to go
lower than 1st ch) than that.
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